I don't see anywhere that you are defining what a my_hdr is, yet you are printing one of its supposed members here:
printf("%s\n", my_ar.ar_name);
You also never set ar_name to anything either.
I see you read some data into a variable named buffer, but you never actually copy that buffer into ar_name which I am assuming is your intent.
while (read(input_fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)) > 0) {
printf("%s\n", my_ar.ar_name);
}